Summary

CAARI, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research
Institute, exists to promote the study of the archaeology, culture, and ecology
of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean through its world-class library,
gracious home, and staff members expert in facilitating the research of foreign
scholars on Cyprus. CAARI fosters
dialogue between American and Cypriot scholars, provides services, facilities
and lodging to researchers of all nations at work in the fields of the human,
social, and natural sciences on Cyprus, and sponsors public and specialist lectures,
symposia and workshops.

Mission Statement

CAARI, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research
Institute, exists to promote the study of the archaeology, culture, and ecology
of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean through its world-class library,
gracious home, and staff members expert in facilitating the research of foreign
scholars on Cyprus. CAARI fosters
dialogue between American and Cypriot scholars, provides services, facilities
and lodging to researchers of all nations at work in the fields of the human,
social, and natural sciences on Cyprus, and sponsors public and specialist lectures,
symposia and workshops.

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Overview

Mission Statement

CAARI, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research
Institute, exists to promote the study of the archaeology, culture, and ecology
of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean through its world-class library,
gracious home, and staff members expert in facilitating the research of foreign
scholars on Cyprus. CAARI fosters
dialogue between American and Cypriot scholars, provides services, facilities
and lodging to researchers of all nations at work in the fields of the human,
social, and natural sciences on Cyprus, and sponsors public and specialist lectures,
symposia and workshops.

At the heart of CAARI’s history is its world class research
library, built steadily through grants, private gifts, institutional exchanges,
and opportunities in 1985, the 1990s, and 2006 to acquire the libraries of
great scholars of Cyprus. CAARI’s research archive, its large map collection, and
its study collection of over 14,000 catalogued artifacts and ecofacts from the Neolithic
to the post-medieval period on Cyprus offer materials unique on the island.

In 1990, CAARI acquired a gracious, early 20th-century
historic home and garden near the Old City, the Cyprus Museum, the Department
of Antiquities, and the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of
Cyprus. It now houses CAARI’s library, laboratory,
staff offices, and accommodation for twelve scholars. Here CAARI’s community gathers for public
lectures, for receptions in the garden, and for animated interchanges among
researchers deep in the excitement of being immersed in their work. In 2014, excavation will begin on an
underground extension to house the library’s holdings. It will provide some fifty years of space for
expansion.

CAARI today is a nexus where scholars from around the world
meet to share ideas, do research in its world class library, and participate
with an engaged Cypriot public in cultural events. Researchers of many
disciplines and nationalities use CAARI as their base of operations, making it
a hub of research and cross-pollination of ideas. Cypriot students and scholars, too, make regular
use of the library’s long hours and open stacks, and since the border opened in
2003, students from the northern part of the island have joined them.

Impact Statement

Accomplishments:

Following successful completion in 2012 of a $1,500,000 NEH
Challenge Grant, CAARI has completed plans for a two-story underground expansion
of its library in Nicosia, with state of the art storage space for its paper
holdings adequate for at least 50 years’ expansion.

The expansion is now under construction; CAARI has
fully renovated the existing reading room with new, more
energy-efficient HVAC, lighting, and wiring, all compatible with the addition,
and upgraded computer, telephone, and security technology.

In March 2013 CAARI sponsored an international symposium
offering the first summative assessment of the career of Australian
archaeologist of Cyprus, J.R.B. Stewart. The papers have just been published as
J.R.B Stewart, An Archaeological Legacy, ed.
A.B. Knapp, J. Webb, A. McCarthy (Uppsala: Aström Publications, 2013).

Between March and December 2013, with shrewd financial
management and some draconian economies, CAARI weathered the Cypriot financial
crisis in stable condition with its building plans intact.

Goals:

The single most important goal for 2014 is to complete
construction of the library addition.

The second most important goal for 2014 is to create a
strategic plan for CAARI’s fund-raising needs as it negotiates the added costs
of an expanded physical plant, the dwindling support available from the US
government, and the higher cost of living in Cyprus. This must include the financial as well as
the physical planning for the furnishing and implementation of the new library
space once the building is done.

The third most important goal for the coming year is to
enhance CAARI’s use of social media as a way of building a community of people
aware of CAARI’s role in their lives, developing a broader community of donors
to CAARI, and building enthusiasm and loyalty within the community of CAARI’s
alumni/ae.

The fourth key goal is to begin to anticipate the retirement
in some three years’ time of CAARI’s Administrator, who has “been” CAARI for 30
years. This will mean rethinking
positions, administrative structure, and funds.

Needs Statement

Endowment. The NEH Challenge Grant will double our current $500,000 endowment. But with a larger building to maintain, and
recent escalation in costs in Cyprus,
we need a $2,000,000 endowment. The need
is intensified by the tenuousness of government funding. CAARI has relied upon $100,000 to $165,000
per annum from government grants. Their future is uncertain.

Library resources: Rising journal subscription costs and
CAARI’s commitment to maintain subscriptions to major on-line research
tools—often available on Cyprus only at CAARI—consume $10,000 per
year.

Fellowships: CAARI sponsors three small fellowships for graduate student
research. They draw new scholars to
Cyprus, bring CAARI revenue (recipients live at CAARI), create future
supporters of CAARI. Each has about $50,000; each needs that
amount again.

Laboratory: As a hub of archaeological work CAARI needs to maintain scientific
equipment for geological, osteological, and artifactual analyses; a
Geographical Information Systems laboratory, too, is becoming ever more necessary
and does not exist on the island. CAARI
needs $10,000 to acquire new equipment and maintain existing equipment.

Basic maintenance: CAARI should set aside $15,000 per year for
routine, steady upkeep of its building and garden.

CEO Statement

Cyprus occupies a central place in the Mediterranean and
throughout history has served as a link between divergent communities, linking
east and west, Europe and Asia and Africa. CAARI serves the same purpose, and our position both globally and in the
academic community means that the Institute plays a vital role in linking
disciplines, regions, and peoples and will continue to do so.

Cyprus today stands out among its Middle Eastern neighbors
as a democratic country that is intellectually open and receptive to
inquiry. It is not only among the
richest countries of the region archaeologically; it is one in which
research on the Eastern Mediterranean world can be pursued with full
intellectual freedom. As the
implications of the Arab Spring ricochet among its neighbors, Cyprus’ value as
a site for research will only increase.

The research pursued at CAARI is as engaged with society’s
interaction with the land, nature, and the environment as it is with the
written record. Thus it draws together the
humane, social, and natural sciences that are often separated, yielding a
particularly stimulating environment.

With its steady stream of researchers immersed in their work
and sharing thoughts over coffee, CAARI is a riveting place for graduate
students. Since the 1980s, CAARI has
offered research fellowships for students. The collegial interchange
between young and more established researchers is among CAARI’s most fertile gifts.

CAARI’s public programs are a stable of Nicosia’s cultural
life. In the words of one Cypriot
supporter, “As a non-specialist with only a general interest in archaeology,
I've found it [CAARI] almost essential to life here.”

Board Chair Statement

CAARI’s single greatest success is the enthusiasm it
generates in those who stay there. My
own experience is representative. When I
first arrived, CAARI seemed modest, but as the Director introduced me to the
library, I realized I was encountering not a few books, but an incomparable
tool, crafted with deep seriousness for research of uncompromising
quality. None of the other three
residents was working on anything like my research, but it took only a few
suppers to realize both that my own research was being indispensably deepened
by their broader experience, and that without CAARI, I would not have gained
that knowledge. I’ve been grateful ever since. People look back on CAARI as a place of
amazing warmth and stimulation.

CAARI’s single greatest challenge is that the scholarly
world engaged with the island of Cyprus is small, strewn very thinly over most
of the globe and across many disciplines, and composed largely of fairly
impecunious academics and very impecunious graduate students. Thus, CAARI alumni/ae are enthusiastic but
small donors, and even the more prominent among the established scholars are
poorly equipped to propose donors and Board members of substance.

Challenging, too, is the fact that the generation of people
for whom archaic and classical archaeology was a source of romantic fascination
are aging. We need other avenues into
the attitudes that make Cyprus and its island fascinating.

On an immediate basis, we have gathered e-mail addresses of
people who have attended CAARI events, stayed at CAARI, or otherwise come to
CAARI, and entered a list of 850 names in Constant Contact, a social media tool. We will send monthly news-flashes to this
list, in the expectation of building awareness of CAARI and of luring a certain
number of new and ongoing donors.

We are also working to build an alumni/ae group with annual
donations.

To build outward, toward an altogether new audience, we are
trying to arrange visits to CAARI of high-end interest groups who make
specialized tours to Cyprus—for its amazing geology, for its birds, for its
history of forestry and forest ecology, as well as for archaeology.

Geographic Area Served

INTERNATIONAL

As a home-away-from-home for American archaeological teams, which are heavily composed of faculty and students from many schools, CAARI serves almost all of Massachusetts' universities, and universities throughout the United States.

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Programs

CAARI's library

With 10,000 monographs, 132 serials, 4500 off-prints, map
collection, document archive, and study collection of 14,000 catalogued
artifacts, CAARI’s library is an unequalled
research resource on Cyprus through Antiquity, strong thereafter, and unique in
its range and concentration. It serves
scholars from around the world and Cypriots from both communities. An NEH
Challenge Grant has made possible an underground addition for book and document
storage that will provide for 30-50 years of collection growth. Generous donors
have permitted many extraordinary acquisitions, including three major scholars’
libraries. The library is at the core of CAARI’s mission, attracting scholars, fueling
fresh research, drawing new people to the field. Rising
cost of books, rapidly escalating subscription rates to serials, and exploding
needs for new on-line research tools make the library CAARI’s most important
and demanding financial responsibility.
Funding the library adequately is central to CAARI’s very survival.

Budget

$100,000.00

Category

Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Cultural Heritage

Population Served

US& International Adults European Heritage

Program Short-Term Success

Short-term success will entail 1) slowly expanding monograph acquisitions,
2) maintaining the number of serial subscriptions—though not necessarily of the
same titles, and 3) improving digital access.

Program Long-Term Success

Long-term success means
being in 2064 a research instrument at least as impressive as—and preferably
more impressive than—it is today in 1) content and resources, and 2)
accessibility to its users, be they physically present (as now) or only
virtually so (as may be the case in future). Steady, well-informed acquisition, good physical maintenance, and adroit
adaptation to changes in technology are all important. The library should have an international
reputation for its collections, staff, intellectual scope. and forward-looking
policies of information management.

Program Success Monitored By

Success is measured most visibly by the number of researchers
using the library, physically or on-line. This will continue only if we 1) acquire the tools they need—the current
publications, serials, study collection, digital tools—and 2) continue to maintain
a profile distinctive from other libraries in Nicosia. So far, the numbers continue to rise.

Examples of Program Success

Several hundred people use CAARI every month; exact statistics have only just begun to be compiled; the reading room is crowded on a regular basis.

CAARI's Fellowships

Fellowships are
crucial to CAARI: they bring scholars,
and since fellowship-holders usually stay at CAARI, they bring income. CAARI’s 3 graduate research fellowships are
central to its goal of developing people knowledgeable about Cyprus and the Eastern
Mediterranean. They provide a period of
intense, collegial interaction with the best scholars at work on Cyprus. CAARI is a ceaseless crossroads of scholarly
activity. Major scholars immersed in
their work and eager to talk; experienced hands ready to help; other graduate
students to share experiences; all the books: a month with these can be the flame that kindles a project, a
dissertation, a book…even a career. Former CAARI fellows now hold teaching positions, foreign service and NGO
posts, and research jobs around the world.

Our passion for the graduate fellowships is great, but,
funding lags behind soaring airfares and dwindling university budgets. The CAARI fellowships are among our very
dearest fund-raising goals.

Budget

$210,000.00

Category

Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Cultural & Ethnic Awareness

Population Served

US& International European Heritage College Aged (18-26 years)

Program Short-Term Success

Short-term success will allow CAARI to raise the capital in
each of the fellowship funds to $70,000, affording a fellowship of $2500 each
year: that is, enough for round-trip
transportation to and from Cyprus, and residence at CAARI for four weeks.

Program Long-Term Success

Long-term success will allow CAARI to offer at least three
graduate student fellowships a year that cover the cost of round-trip
transportation to and from Cyprus, the associated insurance, residence at CAARI
for a month’s duration, a cost-of-living stipend to cover food and transport on
the island, and e stipend for research expenses.

Program Success Monitored By

We watch application ratios to the fellowships: they range between three and six applicants per fellowship granted. The applicant pool is there, and the ratio is selective.

Examples of Program Success

Former CAARI fellows hold university, foreign service, NGO, and research administration jobs that mobilize their knowledge of the complex Eastern Mediterranean world, rooted in their experience on Cyprus; Cyprus is figuring college courses taught by CAARI fellows.

CAARI's Hostel

CAARI’s historic, early-20th-century
home,
housing library, laboratory, garden, and hostel accommodations for up to 12
researchers, is vital to its services
and its welcoming, friendly atmosphere. Conveniently
located, CAARI is ideal for meetings among foreign and Cypriot scholars, and
its airy, gracious foyer is in regular use. Its reading room seats 80 for lectures, followed by hospitality in foyer
or garden. Foyer and seminar room accommodate
conferences and workshops. The 2nd
floor, devoted to the hostel, is a cherished home-away-from-home for scholars,
who share its roomy kitchen and verandas, 24/7/365 access to the library,
internet, laundry facilities, parking, and a steady stream of interesting
newcomers. In any one year, people from
as many as 40 countries may use CAARI’s facilities. Maintaining house and garden in the simple
but welcoming, well-maintained way on which CAARI’s reputation and appeal
depend is critical and costly. New
demands lie ahead: furnishing the library addition, restoring the garden
ravaged during construction, enhancing library security as use expands.

Budget

$80,000.00

Category

Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Cultural & Ethnic Awareness

Population Served

US& International European Heritage Europe & Newly Independent States

Program Short-Term Success

Short-term success means the effective solution of presently
perceptible problems: the restoration of
the garden, destroyed during construction of the new library extension; the furnishing
of the extension itself; the steady repairs to walls, shutters, windows, roof;
the regular refitting of bath and toilet facilities; the full implementation of
EU regulations regarding accessibility.

Program Long-Term Success

Long-term success means having the building in beautiful
condition in 2080 when it is 150 years old. Will it have weathered hard use of library and hostel; will it have had
the steady upkeep it has needed; will adjustments to sharply changing ways of using
electricity, fossil and other fuels, and water have been made with due care and
foresight; will its garden be a delight; will its antique furnishings be well
cared-for, its quotidian furnishings be frequently enough upgraded?

Program Success Monitored By

Success is measured most simply by the number of researchers
who choose to use CAARI’s hostel and facilities. Though plummeting funding by universities for
research travel has affected the hostel’s winter residency rate, it has been
jammed during the summers when academics travel if they possibly can.

Examples of Program Success

In 2006-2012 CAARI successfully completed an NEH Challenge Grant intended for refurbishment and enlargement of its building. The grant drew an unprecedented level of contribution from its supporters, a testimony to their affection for the site.

CAARI's Public Programs

CAARI’s public
programs forge a critical bond with its host country. The culturally engaged Cypriot public is as
significant a beneficiary of CAARI’s work as the research community. CAARI’s biggest event, the Summer
Archaeological Workshop, gathers all teams excavating in Cyprus to share the
results of their current season. It
attracts an audience of 200, and is a staple of the cultural calendar. CAARI sponsors 6 to 8 public lectures a year
in its reading room, which can seat up to 80. These are followed by refreshments and conversation in the garden or
foyer. Several seminars on specific
topics occur annually, drawing on both Cypriot and visiting scholars. Specialized workshops to brain-storm pressing
issues are organized on an occasional basis, often leading to more formal
seminars or publications. Every two
years, CAARI organizes an international symposium with participants from around
the globe. Seven of these have been
published as CAARI Monographs. These
public events keep the research at CAARI in constant dialogue with Nicosia’s
culturally keenly attuned public. They
have forged an attitude of respect for CAARI that is vital. Maintaining fine public programs is essential.

Budget

$5,000.00

Category

Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Cultural & Ethnic Awareness

Population Served

US& International Europe & Newly Independent States European Heritage

Program Short-Term Success

Short-term success will entail the creation of a fund for
public presentations. It might be set
aside to fund color images in the CAARI Monographs, it might be dedicated to
lectures, but it would give formal recognition to the fact that a program
maintained on rubber bands and chewing gum has a larger role in CAARI’s
mission.

Program Long-Term Success

Long-term success will entail 1) regularizing the biannual
publication and upgrading the printing of the CAARI Monographs to give them
full-color reproductions and a wider audience; and 2) giving CAARI’s public lecture series greater
regularity and profile. CAARI draws on
distinguished people when they happen to be in town. Useful in producing interesting speakers, it
wreaks havoc with scheduling and advertising. To give Cypriot studies a stronger voice in the academic community, speakers
should be invited in a timely way, and their presentations made available on
the Web.

Program Success Monitored By

Success
will be measured in
the number of hits on the CAARI Web site, the number of book reviews of CAARI
Monographs, and the number of citations on-line and in print to events at CAARI

Examples of Program Success

Excellent book reviews of CAARI's Monographs; steady high attendance at lectures; SRO attendance at this June's Summer Archaeology Workshop.

CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments

CAARI has significant financial needs. Half its funding has in the past come from
the US government; it has relied heavily for the rest on the contributions of
its Board of Trustees and small community of loyal supporters. Recent financial jolts—reduced government
funding for overseas research centers and the escalation in the cost of
services and utilities in wake of Cyprus’ financial crisis—to say nothing of
the prospect of having a larger physical plant to maintain all make it clear
that CAARI must develop an endowment substantial enough to enable it to support
itself independently.

In all other senses—and this is the thing to stress—CAARI is
flourishing. It has a well-recognized
role among the institutions most responsible for Cyprus’ rich cultural
heritage. It is respected by the United
States Embassy in Cyprus, which values its cultural diplomacy and has drawn
upon its expertise. It is a major
thoroughfare for scholarship on the island, and is bound to become—if anything—even
busier as the Arab Spring takes its toll on archaeological work in other
Mediterranean countries.

Among CAARI’s important recent developments is the increased
diversity of its Board of Trustees. Gender diversity it has always had. Over the past six years. it has added to its otherwise all-American
Board seven members who live in Cyprus. These include five Cypriots who are major civic, commercial, and
government leaders, and two senior scholars who are of British nationality but
live in Cyprus. Thus the Board is more
representative of the communities that CAARI serves, and more closely attuned
to Cypriot affairs. The Board members
who live in Cyprus are rarely able to attend Board meetings held in the United States,
but most U.S. members expect to attend the upcoming spring meeting, which will
be held in Nicosia.

Management

Raymond C. Ewing served as United States ambassador to Cyprus from 1981 to 1984 and to Ghana from 1989 to 1992.

Ambassador Ewing's other assignments during a 36 year career in the Foreign Service were in Tokyo, Japan; Vienna, Austria, with the U.S. Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency; Lahore, Pakistan; Rome, Italy; Bern, Switzerland as Counselor for Economic and Commercial Affairs; and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as Charge D'Affaires, ad interim. In the Department of State in Washington, D.C., he served in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, as Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs (Cyprus, Greece and Turkey) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary; the Foreign Service Institute, as Dean of the School of Language Studies; and the Bureau of Human Resources, as Director of the Office of Foreign Service Career Development and Assignments. Ambassador Ewing retired from the Department of State on September 30, 1993.

Since July 1, 1994, he has been managing editor of Mediterranean Quarterly, a journal of global issues, published by Duke University Press and with an editorial office at the National Press Building in Washington.

Raymond C. Ewing received a B.A. from Occidental College in 1957 and an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1970.

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Collaborations

CAARI is one of three overseas research instituted founded under the aegis of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR).

CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments

CAARI has an Advisory Committee of five Cypriot members. All are prominent civic leaders in Nicosia. They give us advice and counsel on governmental, legal, financial, civic, and real estate and construction matters, and before the financial crisis of 2013 were also instrumental in developing a Cypriot community of donors to CAARI.

Along with the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, CAARI is one of the three constituents of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), and many of its policies are those of ASOR, in particular its statement of professional ethics in archaeology. Thus we have an affiliation, just not one listed in the pull-down menu.

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CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments

CAARI has significant financial needs. Half its funding has in the past come from
the US government; it has relied heavily for the rest on the contributions of
its Board of Trustees and small community of loyal supporters. Recent financial jolts—reduced government
funding for overseas research centers and the escalation in the cost of
services and utilities in wake of Cyprus’ financial crisis—to say nothing of
the prospect of having a larger physical plant to maintain all make it clear
that CAARI must develop an endowment substantial enough to enable it to support
itself independently.

In all other senses—and this is the thing to stress—CAARI is
flourishing. It has a well-recognized
role among the institutions most responsible for Cyprus’ rich cultural
heritage. It is respected by the United
States Embassy in Cyprus, which values its cultural diplomacy and has drawn
upon its expertise. It is a major
thoroughfare for scholarship on the island, and is bound to become—if anything—even
busier as the Arab Spring takes its toll on archaeological work in other
Mediterranean countries.

Among CAARI’s important recent developments is the increased
diversity of its Board of Trustees. Gender diversity it has always had. Over the past six years. it has added to its otherwise all-American
Board seven members who live in Cyprus. These include five Cypriots who are major civic, commercial, and
government leaders, and two senior scholars who are of British nationality but
live in Cyprus. Thus the Board is more
representative of the communities that CAARI serves, and more closely attuned
to Cypriot affairs. The Board members
who live in Cyprus are rarely able to attend Board meetings held in the United States,
but most U.S. members expect to attend the upcoming spring meeting, which will
be held in Nicosia.

Short Term Solvency

Long Term Solvency

Fiscal Year

2014

2013

2012

Long-term Liabilities/Total Assets

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0%

CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments

The challenges faced by CAARI are 1) a small and amateur group of officers able to devote the amount of time needed to maintain its financial work; 2) a small constituency thinly distributed across the globe, operating in many currencies; 3) its library and hostel are located in a country recently beset by financial crisis.

CAARI's opportunities are the other side of the mirror: 1) a dedicated core group of officers who work with dedication; 2) a small but devoted constituency world-wide; 3) a welcoming host country in which major civic leaders have offered expert help with financial, legal, governmental, and other matters.

Foundation Comments

Financial summary data in charts and graphs are per the organization's IRS Form 990s. Contributions from foundations and corporations are listed under individuals when the breakout was not available.

Please note, the combined audited financial files posted above also reflect The Institute, a nonprofit organization engaged in archaeological research on the Island of Cyprus. Per the audit files, prepared in Cyprus, The Institute operates in Cyprus as a branch of the parent organization, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Inc. Please review the audits for further information.

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